I am a Postdoctoral Research Associate in Computer Science and Engineering at the University of Washington. I am working with Dr. Sidd Srinivasa at the Personal Robotics Lab. I am working on food manipulation in the context of assistive feeding tasks.

Before starting my Ph.D, I worked as a Visiting Scientist at the Interaction and Robotics Research Center in Korea Institute of Science and Technology (KIST), in Seoul, South-Korea. My work there focused on control design for human-like reaching movements using redundancy in robot arm-trunk and hand-arm systems. I did my M.S at the Robotics and Simulation Lab in Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) in Daejeon, South-Korea. During my M.S, I worked on the analysis of stability and performance of teleoperation systems in surgical applications.

Before my masters, I worked in TAL Manufacturing Solutions Ltd. (A TATA Motors subsidiary) on the design of an industrial pick-and-place robot and on providing robotic and factory-automation solutions for automotive applications. I did my B. Tech at the National Institute of Technology in Calicut, India (NIT-Calicut).

Recent News:

Our paper on 'Towards Robotic Feeding: Role of Haptics in Fork-based Food Manipulation' was accepted to RA-L 2019

Our demonstration on Autonomous Robotic Feeding won the Best Demo Award at NeurIPS 2018